Chapter 360 The Third Conjunction of the Stars

  After all, it is not a large hierarchical organization, and the internal atmosphere of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​still very relaxed.

Although Dumbledore's tone was a little serious, everyone soon became relaxed.

 There are too many difficulties in this world, and they have become accustomed to them.

Even if they had to fight against Voldemort, they had already done it.

  Strategically attach importance to the other party and tactically despise the other party. These old magic warriors have been able to do it.

 So despite Sirius and Lupin's jokes, everyone still laughed easily.

 The food was served quickly and we chatted while eating.

Ted: Voldemort or something... let’s order first!

Everyone is happy now, except Snape, who has always been gloomy and has never seen a smiling face all year round.

He did not stay to eat either. He left before the meal started.

Though I don’t want to say it, the atmosphere seemed to be more harmonious after Snape left. Everyone is more active.

Hagrid stroked his long back and neatly trimmed beard and said with emotion: I didn’t expect that I was already more handsome than the school’s top senior!

　　When Tom was at school, he said that no one could love you too much, which was like Blond Ted.

 What was Hagrid's situation at that time? Forget it, mention it with bitter tears.

Let’s put it this way, he was expelled from school until the third grade, so he didn’t have a single good friend. So much so that he could only stay with those magical animals.

At that time, Hagrid was a big, stupid guy who didn’t realize how strong he was. He had a loud voice, made fuss and was sloppy, and didn’t understand many etiquettes.

His father was a terrifying man who dared to sleep with a giantess and successfully preserved a seed. Although he took good care of Hagrid, he died when he was just starting school.

 This is a child without a home... Talking about it brings tears to my eyes.

The Hagrid who was despised by everyone back then was falsely accused, had his wand broken, and was expelled. Hagrid could only work as a gamekeeper...

Now he has a new look, he has become Dumbledore's most trusted person, has become the Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts, is respected by all students, has published articles in professional journals, and has become the headmaster of Beauxbatons, Madame Maxime. fall in love!

And the senior Tom who framed him back then has turned into a monster that looks like a human but not a human being, with only four of his five features left.

Everything is unpredictable, things are changing, and the right path in the world is subject to vicissitudes of life!

Of course, you also have to meet good people. Don't be afraid that good things will not happen, just be afraid that there will be no good people.

 Malfoy feels somewhat like this now!

 Fighting Voldemort, are you serious? us? !

 Malfoy's face looked a little pale.

 Because of his father's words and deeds, he was more afraid of Voldemort than anyone else.

But Harley kept holding his hand under the table.

If there hadn't been a meeting, the two of them would probably have used the holidays to communicate more, avoiding Sirius.

 …

Although Ted didn’t say anything, he still felt a certain amount of pressure in his heart.

 It was easy to say in the past few years, because Voldemort had not actually done much at that time.

 But even in the original book, the situation begins to become serious when Voldemort is resurrected at the end of the fourth year.

Everyone who watches movies has a feeling - since the resurrection of Voldemort, you need to turn up the screen to watch the Harry Potter series of movies. Because the painting style is a bit too dark.

 This is no longer a children’s fairy tale. In other words, it is beginning to return to the era of dark fairy tales from the early ancient times.

  The original novel begins with Cedric's death.

He is luckier this time and probably won't get involved.

This time it was Karkaroff who died...

 Ted is somewhat worried about his friends... He has to find a way to improve their strength!

The situation is different now. Voldemort was resurrected early, and he also got some magic that didn't belong to this world, and he also got a snake staff. This is much stronger than in the original work!

 As long as his strength is improved, the main thing is that he also has a brain.

They even took a two-pronged approach and sent people to rescue their group of die-hard Death Eaters.

Now as long as he does something and makes it seem like he is prosperous, the peripheral Death Eaters who escaped the liquidation in the past will immediately surround him.

He has returned to the peak moment when he was making waves in the magical world of Great Britain and causing a **** storm more than ten years ago.

"However, most people still don't believe that Voldemort has returned. That's what Dumbledore said!" Harry complained.

Hermione put a piece of steak on Ted's plate and said: "After all, they are not like us. They knew from the beginning that Voldemort was not dead."

While cutting the steak, Ted said: "It's normal for people not to believe that Voldemort is resurrected. Most people only believe what they want to believe and don't want to understand what is going on. They subconsciously seek benefits and avoid Harm is instinctive.”

 Hermione took the cut steak from Ted's plate juicily.

Ron on the other side had meat pie in his mouth and muttered: "Voldemort's Horcrux, can he really survive?!"

Jerry and Malfoy both pricked up their ears, looking very interested.

Who doesn’t want to live forever?

Ted glanced at his friends and the adults who were quietly observing them, and said: "At the end of last summer vacation, Mr. and Mrs. Nicoléme came to an end and passed away. Before that, I studied with him for two months. alchemy…"

“He once told me that only a fool would think that death is the worst thing in the world.”

“Existence is meaningful, but immortal existence is meaningless.”

“I know what it’s like to be alive. To live is to exist, and then pass away. This is a complete process.”

“Whenever you fear death, remember this—death is a gift, and what you should fear is eternal life.”

Everyone was thoughtful after hearing this.

 …

Here, Dumbledore has begun to gather strength and prepare to go to war with the Death Eaters led by Voldemort.

The first task at present is to confirm the number of Voldemort's Horcruxes. This investigation probably started when he was still in school decades ago.

 Who was the first person he killed? Moaning Myrtle!

Then where did he learn about Horcruxes? This should be a crucial clue.

The head of Slytherin at that time was Horace Slughorn.

Dumbledore began to prepare, and even the International Federation of Wizards had secretly made preparations - because this time Voldemort had obviously reached out to Ilvermorny in North America, and this was no longer a "civil war" in Great Britain.

 However, the British Ministry of Magic is still talking nonsense!

It probably looks like this:

 Minister, Voldemort is resurrected!

 Fudge: Calm down!

 In the first stage, we claim that nothing happened.

 Phase 2, we say maybe something is going on, but we shouldn’t take action.

Stage 3, saying maybe we should take action, but we can’t do anything.

 Stage 4: Maybe we could have done something at first, but now it is too late.

 It is an ancestral art!

 The phenomenon of Muggle wizards appears~

The "Daily Prophet" has everything written about it, except that it doesn't mention the Dark Lord.

Even the news of the Azkaban prison break has begun to gain popularity, and it is all in the corner of the fourth and fifth pages.

Why does Fudge deny Voldemort's return?

 For two words, stability!

 To put it bluntly, even if Voldemort really comes back, we can't talk about this!

 The cost of admitting that Voldemort is back, apart from the loss of stability, the most important thing is that you have to fight Voldemort.

Is Fudge willing to lead the Ministry of Magic to fight Voldemort and the Death Eaters? Of course I don't want to.

 Originally, I had no chance of being re-elected, with less than one year left in my term.

 As a result, Old Man Sikes lost his horse, but he didn't expect it to be a blessing!

I earn a few hundred galleons a month, why should I play with you?

 The current situation is very unfavorable for wizards like the Order of the Phoenix who are preparing to risk their lives against Voldemort.



It may even be labeled as making a lot of trouble, alarmist, and spreading panic, which is really difficult to deal with.

As for the public opinion position, you can occupy it without occupying the enemy. Voldemort may even use public opinion and the Ministry of Magic to turn against the Order of the Phoenix.

 It is said that the right person will get a lot of help, but the wrong person will get little help.

 At that time, the black will become white, and the white will become black. That was a real laugh.

 So, we must not relax in this regard. We must unite all forces that can be united...

It is now impossible to count on the "Daily Prophet", the official media of Great Britain.

The most correct thing Fudge has done in recent years is to hold the Daily Prophet in his hands.

The Daily Prophet is the mainstream media in the wizarding world. In Muggle terms, it is the official media. It mainly reports on political and business trends, social news, sports events, etc.

Of course, it will occasionally involve some entertainment gossip, and most of the articles in this area are written by Rita Skeeter.

 The Daily Prophet was not the mouthpiece of the Ministry of Magic at the beginning, and even many of its early articles were mostly criticizing the Ministry of Magic. But as Fauci's ambition for power intensified, he further controlled social media and finally captured this key mouthpiece.

According to what Ted asked Rita Skeeter in his dream, the current president and editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet are both Fudge’s people.

He even sent a pudgy pink old woman to supervise - all articles and pictures to be published in the newspaper needed her approval.

 Fudge has really learned the essence now!

But don’t give up!

Ted also has the most powerful publicity tool in his hands - Magic Network Utopia!

Let alone Fudge, even if Dumbledore and Voldemort join forces, they can't even think of taking this thing away from Ted.

At present, the magic network has been built all over Europe. Except for very remote places where no signal towers and leyline magic network are built, other places can log into Utopia without delay.

 Even there is a "net" over there in Egypt...

However, Utopia alone is not enough. For conservative and backward adult wizards, the status of print media is still irreplaceable.

Besides, Ted couldn't really openly oppose Fudge and the Ministry of Magic, without making Old Deng laugh out loud.

 I am an auxiliary, not a vanguard.

So, we have to put on a layer of skin, and we have to find other ways to disseminate information.

 At least print media is indispensable. In fact, there is already an alternative, the last street-stall magazine in the wizarding world, "The Quibbler."

Before the holidays, the "Daily Prophet" published lengthy explanations and reasonings about how ridiculous Voldemort's return was, but there was a large article in "The Quibbler" stating that Voldemort had returned.

 Even wrote a lot of "insiders"! It really has a nose and eyes!

Had I not happened to write about the inside story that Ted knew, I would have thought they had some exclusive inside information.

You can say that Lovegood, the editor-in-chief of "The Quibbler", is riding on the popularity, but he really believes that Voldemort is back!

Then it’s you!

 Use "The Quibbler" as a media outlet for public opinion!

 Of course there are difficulties.

 Although the content of the Daily Prophet is high-sounding, at least its attitude is not absurd and it is endorsed by authority.

 The Quibbler is somewhat similar to street stall literature in the Muggle world.

As you can tell from the name, this is a magazine that advocates going against the mainstream.

 The main reason why everyone treats these contents as a joke is that the style of this magazine is too absurd. In today's terms, it is just a marketing account.

You can imagine that there are many marketing media in the West saying: Hitler is resurrected, bin Laden is not dead, the Apollo moon landing was fake, the United States is controlled by the lizards, and the Freemasons control the world...

It’s really difficult to get most people to believe the views of “The Quibbler”!

Ted: No, should I look for other methods? How about radio? !

But before Ted could modify the magic radio, something unexpected happened.

 …

On the second day of the Order of the Phoenix meeting, when Ted was tinkering with the magic radio, a mountain peak about 1,200 meters above sea level suddenly appeared in Switzerland!

 Lonely, at the end of a mountain range, suddenly appeared after a morning heavy fog.

 Nothing has happened that day.

 But after all, there are people living in the area and have lived there for decades, so they still know the surrounding environment very well.

Suddenly there was a thousand-meter peak. I didn’t notice it that day, but I also discovered it the next day!

 Could it be that Foolish Old Man moved the mountain to Switzerland? !

So some desperate young people from the small town formed a team to explore, and the good guy directly found a group of fifty or sixty orcs!

The kind of half-orc whose skin is as gray as rock and looks very ugly. Although he is much shorter, he is ferocious and bloodthirsty. He has mastered certain metallurgy and construction skills and can tame the terrible warg.

Needless to say, the six adventurous young people from the small town were all done on the same day. And the town that wasn't too far away couldn't escape either, and was attacked within a few hours.

 The good news is that the local police chief is a veteran of the war. He has a drawer full of war medals, even though he is already in his fifties or sixties and is retiring. But the habit of preparing for war has penetrated deep into the bones!

 It was under his leadership—mainly with the support of his family's arsenal of weapons—that the residents of the town repelled the first wave of attack by the group of orcs.

 But there were many caves on the mountain that suddenly appeared, and there were obviously countless orc monsters in them.

There were even taller orc warriors wearing simple armor and holding large knives. When small-caliber bullets hit their bodies, they shuddered and continued to charge!

 Before more orcs rushed to the town, the town's hundreds of people, led by the police chief, shifted their strategies in cars.

 Behind them, some strong orcs even rode ugly and huge wargs in pursuit, and some were able to use bows and arrows! Shot several town residents to death.

And the police chief saw a terrifying monster over three meters tall through the telescope!

 About five or six hours later, the Swiss local police army arrived in the town.

 As expected, there are still some orcs who have not left yet, searching everywhere for everything.

 Then modern firepower started to fight with the alien barbarians.

With the help of heavy machine guns and portable rocket launchers, the human army was able to repel these orcs.

 But after chasing him to the foot of the mountain, he did not dare to move forward. If we really pursue him into a cave, it will be hard to say.

Moreover, this mountain is not even on the map!

This kind of thing happens not only in Switzerland.

In the territories of Spain and Portugal, a large river suddenly appeared connecting the two countries, and the water flow was not small, turning many low-lying areas into reservoirs!

It turned out that there was a giant python anaconda that was more than ten or twenty meters long in the water!

There is also a huge rift valley more than ten kilometers long between Poland and Lithuania, where many unknown giant raptors nest...

 In short, it seems that all of a sudden, a lot of terrain that does not belong to this world squeezed in!

 Incomplete statistics around the world, there are more than 20 places!

The Wizards' Union directly gave a conclusion - it is very likely that the third large-scale conjunction of stars is about to begin again!

 (End of this chapter)